BMC, NEMCC to Hold Construction Conference

BLUE MOUNTAIN, Miss. – Northeast Mississippi Community College and Blue Mountain College will hold their fourth annual Construction Conference on January 17 on the BMC campus. Registration will be at 8 a.m. and the program begins at 8:45 a.m., all in room 108 of Fisher-Washburn Hall.

The daylong conference, which began in 2010 as an off-shoot of the joint Construction Management Program between the two colleges, will cover a variety of topics, ranging from marketing and advertising, and insurance and finance, to design and construction.

Featured speakers include Ty Robinson, vice president of Robinson and Associates; Kevin Glasgow, senior vice president of Willis, a surety and bonding company in Nashville; Morgan Whitfield of Prairie Construction in Tupelo; Gary Moore, a certified public accountant in Tupelo; Mike Geruck of Thompson Machinery of Nashville; David Dow, vice president of Trenchsafety and Supply in Memphis; and Will Lewis of JBHM Architects in Tupelo.

For complete information, contact Ray Gaillard at Northeast Mississippi Community College (662-720-7203) or by email at rdgaillard@nemcc.edu.

There is a $12 registration fee prior to January 8 and $20 afterward. Registration checks made payable to Alliance of Construction Engineers can be mailed to Ray Gaillard, Northeast Mississippi Community College, P.O. Box 1544, Booneville, MS 38829.